International Women's Day: Sayings and speeches for inspiration for women
It's nice that it isgives - the day on which everyone please remember that women, Demand justice and equality 365 days a year (and are still not at the destination). Sayings and speeches are little reminders, which is all about the day of women.
Often it is only a sentence that encourages courage again. Courage to continue fighting, demanding its rights and taking action against inequality. “Harry would have died in Volume 1 without Hermione” is one of them, but many famous women said pretty good one-liners who in just a few words get exactly what, the courage, the persistence, the frausin, in a nutshell.
Women's Day: The most inspiring sayings and quotes
- Freedom is always the freedom of those who think differently. (Rosa Luxembourg)
- Don't let yourself get down! Be cheeky and unique! (Astrid Lindgren)
- A man can put on what he wants - he only remains an accessory of the woman. (Coco Chanel)
- You are not born as a woman, you will. (Simone de Beauvoir)
- Women are the real architects of a society. (Cher)
- Women with good manners rarely write history. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- We have to rethink our picture of ourselves. We have to get up as women and take the lead. (Beyoncé)
- I don't know a woman who is alive and not brave. (Reese Witherspoon)
- Nothing seems to fear gods and men more than the loss of control over women. (Mary Daly)
- Women are only successful when nobody is surprised that they are successful. (Emmeline Pankhurst)
World Women's Day Sayings: These are the best excerpts from talking great women
But of course women can do more than just one-liners. You can swing big and important speeches, make your point of view credible and make people rethink - not just on.
Women's day speaking: Queen Elisabeth I, before the battle against the Spanish armada
One of the first big speeches of a woman led Queen Elisabeth I when she competed against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the army consisting of men on the battlefield. With her speech, she, the queen, managed to form her army into a unit - by assured the unmarried “Virgin Queen” thousands of soldiers that she did not “come to the pleasure and distraction” in full gear in the scene in Essex, but because she was determined to live “in the tumult the battle with them or to die with [them]. Of course, consultants Elisabeth I had warned of her battlefield appearance to step in front of an entire armed army as a wife and queen. But she gave nothing to the security measures, because her own conviction, her people was more important to her. Despite her “Leib of a weak and weak woman”, tyrants should be afraid, because she reaches for weapons herself and takes command if it should be necessary.
Then what happened? The Spanish armada sank off the English coast, Elisabeth I pulled as a glorious, brave and maybe maybeBack to the palace.
Smart speech on World Women's Day: Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the “Frontiero against Richardson” (1973)
Ruth Bader Ginsburgis one of the most important women in the history of the United States. Thanks to her, women's issues in legislation were taken more seriously than ever before. As one of only nine students, RBG started her law studies in Harvard. She is considered a pioneer in the fight against discrimination based on skin color or gender and in 1973 as an advocative by Sharron Frontiero, officer at Air Force. In the case, it was about social benefits maintenance -righted spouses who could be interpreted in favor of the woman. Bader Ginsburg stated in court: “Like the skin color, the gender is a visible, unchangeable feature that does not necessarily say something about performance. Women are one in the world of work todayExposed, which is just as profound, but even more subtle than the discrimination against minorities. ”
The later judge at the Federal Court of Justice and absolute icon of the women's movement closed her plea with a mega, a strong quote from the sla area Sarah Grimké: “I do not ask for privileges for my gender. I only ask our brothers to take their foot off our neck. ” But this quote still described the condition in 1973 as well as in 1837 when Sarah Grimké put it for the first time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for her client Sharron Frontiero - and got right. Not only that, but the presiding judge William Brennan even noticed in his reasoning that the existing discrimination would often be transfigured as a kind of “romantic paternalism”. However, he would not put women on a pedestal, but would lock them into a cage. The judgment, like so many in which Ruth Bader Ginsburg was involved, is considered pioneering for the US judiciary.
LGBTQIA+speech on Women's Day: Sylvia Rivera (1973)
Sylvia Rivera is-A activist and really drew attention to herself in 1973 when she jumped on stage at the celebrations to the Christopher Street Day in New York and gave an emotional speech. In it said theand: “I was in jail. I was raped. And beaten. Of men, heterosexual men in homosexual accommodations. But do you do anything for me? No. You say I should run away and hide my cock between my legs. I will not put up with this shit anymore. "
There were many reasons for Rivera's emotional outbreak: the activist, who was closely friends with Marsha P. Johnson, was because of her Puerto-Rican origin, her skin color and her sexual orientationexposed. Rivera himself had in thegay communityNot just friend: inside because she is a trans person for thethetransgender communityused. Completely right and long overdue.
World Women's Day: Speech by Hillary Clinton at the fourth World Women's Conference of the United Nations (1995)
Was first Lady in the White House in 1995, her husband Bill Clinton ruled the United States. However, Hillary was also active in politics-although always and not surprisingly long in the shadow of her presidential husband. In 1995 she took the UN World Women's Conference as an opportunity to give her perhaps the best speech to this day, in which she said: "It is no longer acceptable to separate women's rights from human rights." According to her, the grievances could continue because the history of women was a story of silence for too long - a story in which the protagonist: interior and narrator: inside would be silenced.
In her emotional speech, Hillary Clinton listed injuries to human rights that could only happen to women due to their gender: genital mutilation, murder because they were born as a girl, rapes as a means of war,In family and society, forcedand human trafficking. The two final sentences are still present today, winged words: “Human rights are women's rights. And women's rights are human rights. "
Tedtalk by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, "We should be all feminist: inside" (2011)
Chimananda Ngozi Adichie not only writes great books likeand, but also keeps great speeches. In 2011 the Nigerian writer and activist spoke in a tedtalk and advocated women's rights and empowerment for 30 minutes. Her sentence “We Should all be feminists” from the speech was printed on T-shirts and dead, parts of the tedtalk sampled Beyoncé Knowles in her song“Flawless”.
In her speech, Adichie asked the following basic questions: “Why the word feminist? Why don't you just say that you believe in human rights or something like that? ” However, she not only asked questions, but also provided the answers: Feminism would of course be part of human rights, but it would be dishonest to use the vague expression “human rights” and to deny the specific and special problem of gender.
“It would be a way to do it as if it were not the women who have been excluded for centuries. It would be a way to deny that the problem of gender concerns women. That it is not about being human, but especially about thatfemaleBeing human, ”she continued in her tedtalk. For centuries, the world would have divided the people into two groups and then excluded and suppressed a group. "This must be recognized exactly in order to be solved.
Political speech on World Women's Day: Julia Gillard, 2012
Julia Gillard was the first Prime Minister of Australia, among other things, because of her “Misogyny Speech” or “speech against women's hatred”. In the beginning it was about the dismissal of the parliamentary president who had sent sexist news. But soon there was a direct exchange of blows between Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott. During his time as Minister of Health in Australia, Abbott had described “abortion as the most convenient” solution and fantasized by strangely unemplied housewives in Australia, but then he wanted to be seen as a fighter against sexism-Gillard described him as a hypocrite despite boos from the parliamentary ranks.
In the wording, the politician said: “I don't let this man tell me anything about sexism and misogyny, definitely not. Not today and not in the future. [...] The opposition leader bumped me up when he stood in front of the parliament building next to a sign on the stand: 'Way with the witch' (by witch clearly meant Gillard himself). [...] He is now looking at the clock because a woman has apparently spoken too long. He has already shouted at me in the past that I should hold my mouth. ”
Gillard's speech was uploaded on YouTube and went viral: To date, the clip generated more than five and a half million views.
Speech for female education: Malala Yousafzai, 2014
Went as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, as the first Pashtun who “argues with her younger brothers”. When the then 15-year-old student was on the way home in a bus in Pakistan, Taliban-Milizen stormed the bus and shot Malala in her head. She survived and received the 2014, two years after the assassination attemptNobel Peace Prize. Because despite the attack on her life, the young person continued to work for school education for girls.
In her acceptance speech, Malala Yousafzai said, among other things: “People describe me in many ways: For some I am the girl who was shot by the Taliban, others call me Nobel Prize winner, for my brothers I am the annoying big sister. I am simply a committed and even stubborn person who wants every child to get good education who wants women to have the same rights as men, and he wants peace to be there anywhere in the world. [...] I was only ten when 400 schools were destroyed in my hometown Swat. Women were flogged. [...] Education was suddenly no longer a right, but a crime. Girls were prevented from going to school. ”
Malala decided not to watch silent how her and her friends were revoked the right to education, but decided to grab word - and therefore perhaps be killed. “I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls. […] I am these 66 million girls who have taken the chance of education. And today I don't make the word as a single person, but I speak with 66 million votes. ” With a passionate appeal, she finally made her speech (at just 17 years old!): “It was the last time that a girl is forced into a child's marriage. Let it be the last time that a child has to give his life in the war. Let it be the last time we see a child who cannot go to school. Let it end with us. "
Women's Day: Speech by Emma Watson for her Heforshe campaign in New York
On September 20, 2014, UN-Women ambassador Emma Watson gave a speech at a special event for the Heforshe campaign, which she supported. The main thing was why feminism is not a negative term why it does not mean that someone hate men and that men also benefit from feminism.
She started the whole thing with a personal anecdote:
“I started to question gender -specific stereotypes when I was confused at the age of eight, why I was called“ Herrisch ”because I wanted to direct the players that we performed for our parents - the boys were not mentioned. When I started to be sexualized by certain parts of the press at the age of 14. When I was 15, my friends started to get out of their sports teams because they didn't want to appear “muscular”. When I was 18, my male friends were no longer able to express their feelings. I decided to be a feminist, and it seemed very easy for me. But my recent research showed me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am one of the women whose statements are considered too strong, too aggressive, isolating, hostile to men and unattractive. Why is the word so uncomfortable? "
Because men are also affected by gender stereotypes and are an important Ally in the fight for equality. "Men - I want to take this opportunity to officially invite you. The gender equality is also your topic. Because to this day I have seen that the role of my father as a parent is less valued by society, although I needed his presence as a child as necessary as that of my mother.
I have experienced that young men who suffer from a mental illness cannot ask for help because they fear that they are less “macho” - in fact, suicide in the United Kingdom is the most common cause of death in men between the ages of 20 and 49 and puts traffic accidents, cancer and heart disease in the shade. I have experienced how men were fragile and unsettled by a distorted idea of what male success is.
We do not often talk about the fact that men are caught in gender stereotypes, but I can see that they are and that if they are free, things for women will change as a natural consequence. "She ends her speech with the confidence that men will also occur for women and support them in battle - because this is the only way to use the systematic problems.
“Black Lives Matter”-Rede: Alicia Garza, 2017
In 2013, the murderer of the black teenager Trayvon Martin was charged and acquitted. Then Alicia Garza posted her “love letter to the black population” on Facebook: “Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives are important. " Her friend Patrissen Khan-Cullors commented on “#BlackliveSmatter”. The rest is history and a movement that has reached all the globe. Garza's Post and Khan-Cullor's commentary became the motto and slaughter cry of countless demos, equality and an end to systematic violence against and discrimination against blacks. The #BLM-Movement is considered one of the largest civil rights movements in the world-and is still far from being at the destination.
In 2017, Alicia Garza gave the speech at the beginning of the new semester at the San Francisco State University, which was entered into history as “Ode to Black Women” as “ODE of black women”. In it she said: "We all, you and me - we owe everything to the black women." Before that, she explained what the black woman constitutes in her eyes: “Who should I devote this ODE unless the black woman from the middle west who could do everything like a man - just better. [...] Who, if not the black women, without whom there are nonewould have given. [...] Who, if not black women - because without them there would be no America. ”
However, in her speech at the university, Garza finally looks forward by saying: "This is an ODE in our potential and our possibilities." In the first sentence, Garza answered why she was talking about black women: "This is an ode of black women, because black women are magic."
Women's Day: Speech by Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Summit, 2019
Great Thunberg began the “Fridays for Future” movement by swinging school on Fridays and tacitly demonstrating for the climate, for a better future. Millions of people in the world followed their brave example and joined climate protests. When Thunberg was invited to the World Climate Summit in New York as a climate activist in 2019, the then 16-year-old student accepted the invitation-and amazed everyone with her brave, fear-free and accusing speech.
When she was asked what message she had for the leaders: on the inside of the free world, she began to show without nervousness, but visibly applied and disappointed to speak: “My message is that we are watching you. All of this is wrong. I should be in fault on the other side of the ocean. But you need young people to give hope. How can you dare? You stole my dreams and childhood with your empty promises. And I'm still one of the lucky ones! People suffer. People die. Complete ecosystems collapse. We are at the beginning of mass extinction, and you only talk about money and the fairy tale of ever increasing economic growth. How can you dare? " At the latest here the 16-year-old young person had the attention of the complete plenary.
Thunberg underpinned her accusations with facts and finally concluded with a clear indictment: “You let us hang. But the young people out there are slowly realizing your fraud. The eyes of all future generations are aimed at you. And if you keep hanging us, I promise you: we will never forgive you. We won't let you get away with it. Exactly here, that's exactly what we're drawing. The world wakes up. And a change will come, whether you like it or not. Thanks."
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